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The US population just prior to the US Civil War had the Southern "slave" states under populated in comparison to the Northern non-slave states. The total US population was approximately 31,443,321.Roughly 23 million people lived in the "North" and the "South's" population was about 11 million of which almost 4 million were slaves.

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some of the people liveing in the south supported the union cause

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